July 27, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, July 27, 2017
On this date in 1804, the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.
Peaches
- Georgia is stalling on turning over voter data to the feds
- 3 Georgia natives make ’50 Most Beautiful’ List on Capitol Hill
- Mandatory tornado shelters in Georgia?
- Are we going to ditch our license plate tags here in the Peach State?
- Macon.com states the obvious about small town living
- This lady managed to run fake clinics for 15 years…
- Rep. Stacey Abrams lands a book deal
- 30 Georgia water systems have harmful pollutants
Jimmy Carter
- No medical marijuana for veterans
- CIA spies get more power
- A proposed 44% income tax rate for some – courtesy of the Trump White House
Sweet Tea
- The United States is editing human embryos
- NSFW but still an interesting…thing
- About those antibiotics doctors tell you to finish…
- People are mad at HBO…again
- In this week’s episode of, “Wow! That’s a terrible way to die…”
- Southwest is selling tickets to the eclipse
- Americans spend more eating out than we do eating at home
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Tax rates: yawn, that’s like MSRP at Kohl’s. Regardless of where you are, rich or poor, the challenge is getting on the right tax code discount list, especially one where the IRS sends you a check at the end of the day.
And we don’t want a flat tax hoping to be on the right list. Dream.
Sam Brownback can tell you about taxes. Oh wait, Sam’s bailing on his governorship 18 months early for a new gig where he serves God and Caesar simultaneously, and the people of Kansas can just deal with the fallout from Sam’s tax policies on their own.
As mentioned you are complaining about the American Dream, successful dealing with tax codes. Isn’t Btownlee an ambassador or Religious saint now ? And walk through any poor neighborhood and see the storefront adds to get you a huge tax rebate check like for your 9 children wherever they are, or disability via lawyers and docs or cash for your unneeeded wheelchair or………all the mid-folks got was $8k for being a first time home owner, a rebate for a electric golf cart or car, cash for clunkers and schedule A.
We are conditioned that government is the answer…….
I walk through poor neighborhoods on a weekly basis as a result of my volunteer work. I do not see these ads that you are referencing. Please provide proof. Otherwise, you are telling falsehoods at the expense of the less fortunate. Which is simply disgusting.
my slam on the tax code crossed all income areas – I believe the AJC has written some articles on tax preparers, posted a pic or two and mentioned addresses getting thousands of refunds.
Had coffee with a doc recently (black if that lends credibility) and his concern was the cottage industry reselling medical equipment and drugs he suspected were not acquired honestly, he didn’t say what economic area the signs to buy the stuff were in. I do find your usual personal remarks disgusting.
“And walk through any poor neighborhood and see the storefront adds to get you a huge tax rebate check like for your 9 children wherever they are, or disability via lawyers and docs or cash for your unneeeded wheelchair”
Your words. Not mine. And as I suspected, a false claim. You have nothing to back it up. You simple wanted to denigrate poor neighborhoods as I suspected. It is a falsehood that needed to be called out. I hope that you might think twice before you say such things in the future.
And nowhere did I make a personal remark. I simply called out a lie. If you took that personally then maybe you need to look inward.
“a huge tax rebate check like for your 9 children wherever they are, or disability via lawyers and docs or cash for your unneeded wheelchair”
What you describe is capitalism. There will always be someone out there trying to prey on vulnerable people. If you are advocating providing more resources to ensure better compliance we should look at the cost of that. At some point the cost of enforcement is greater than the savings.
By the way, the “huge” part of those tax rebate checks you refer to are the fees and interest they are charging. Same for the lawyers.
No worries about any Georgia voter information Kemp turns over to Kobach’s “Election Integrity Commission” being used for nefarious purposes. Kobach has so much integrity that he was fined by a federal court for making “patently misleading representations.”
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NBC’s Katy Tur to Kris Kobach of Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity: “Are you saying Hillary Clinton didn’t win the popular vote?”
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Kobach: “We may never know the answer”
Sheesh, the comment section at ZeroHedge makes you guys look like the friggin’ Boy Scouts.
I mean that in a complimentary, pre-Trump speech, Boy Scouts kind of way.
The rich are different…
https://apnews.com/e7b0ba9c73e24abba9864f51ee7a55e8/Divers-search-lake-for-NFL-star's-$100,000-plus-earring
This would mean employers would no longer legally have to cover people like me, forcing me into an exchange?
I understand why the employer mandate was passed, but in my view, it had a real low cost-benefit score at best. The individual mandate would have otherwise nudged many who got coverage under the employer mandate into the marketplace, and maybe helped stabilize the exchanges. And it enforced the link to employer-based coverage that has warped the insurance market.
Scaramucci meltdown.
I was just reminiscing about that first Trump/Pence campaign logo. Remember that? Boy, those were the good old days. Back when these guys were all amateurs and still finding their way. That was so long ago. Hoo boy. So much water under the bridge. They have made so much progress bringing top level professionalism and winning to the White House! Every day we wait for the next example of how things should be done. This is so great. Scarmucci as Communications Director is perfect. Trump dispensing policy via Twitter is cutting edge.
Surprised?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-rape-idUSKBN1AC1DL?il=0
I’m not sure why Republicans see even skinny repeal as a win. Now, when the premiums go up, or if the marketplaces collapse, they’ll get blamed much easier for that. If they did nothing, they would only get blamed for doing nothing, which is remedied by political spin. On the other hand there is surely a % who would rather see the explosion of the market than to acknowledge the benefits of the law or bipartisan reform.
So, Section II cut the CDC funding by a billion a year? If true, how many Georgians will lose their jobs because of this?
Am I reading the CBO score correctly that of the 15 million who lose coverage, 6 million are employer provider plans?
The people want repeal and replace not “trust us”, congress fails, healthcare costs are going up and the worst case ending of Obamacare could be single payer.
The interesting CBO guesstimate would be the impact of pushing the employer mandate to a much lower number, 10, 5, 1, chasing the idea of more with skin in the game.